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SAU(Saint Augustine's University)

School colors: Blue and White

St. Augustine's University Historic Chapel
Mx. Granger, 2014-12-23, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Raleigh, North Carolina · Founded 1867

Private · Four-year · ~940 students

www.st-aug.edu · official site

Founding

Saint Augustine's University was chartered as a Normal School and Collegiate Institute on July 19, 1867, by the Reverend J. Brinton Smith of the Freedman's Commission of the Protestant Episcopal Church and Bishop Thomas Atkinson of the Diocese of North Carolina. The school opened for instruction on January 13, 1868.

Source: History, Saint Augustine's University, read 2026-09-14.

What the school says about itself

Notable Alumni, as the school lists them
  • Dr. Anna Julia Cooper, An author and university President
  • Henry Beard Delany, The first African-American elected bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States
  • Sarah Louise "Sadie" Delany, An American educator and civil rights pioneer
  • Annie Elizabeth "Bessie" Delany, An American civil rights pioneer
  • Dr. Selma Burke, famed artist of bust of Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Millie Dunn Veasey, An American veteran
  • Dr. Lloyd Quarterman, Worked with Albert Einstein on Manhattan Project
  • Hannah Atkins, a member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 1968 to 1980
  • Ralph Campbell Jr., First black person to hold statewide elected office in NC as State Auditor
  • Dr. Benjamin Franklin Chavis Jr., An African-American civil rights leader
  • Justice James E. C. Perry, Justice, Florida Supreme Court
  • Cynthia "Mother" Pratt, Former Deputy Prime Minister of the Bahamas
From Notable Alumni, Saint Augustine's University, read 2026-09-17. Names as the page lists them.

On the official record

Campus address
1315 Oakwood Avenue, Raleigh, NC 27610-2298
Control
Private not-for-profit
Students
~940 students
Directory id
199582
OPE id
00296800
Student aid
Takes part in Title IV student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Not on the list
Current status
The university states on its own accreditation page that its accreditor voted to remove its accreditation over financial conditions and that it has filed for Chapter 11 reorganization and ended its litigation with the accreditor. It appears on the IPEDS 2024-25 HBCU list and not on the Department's FY 2026 Title III Part B list. Source, read 2026-09-14.
Location
1315 Oakwood Avenue, Raleigh, NC. See it on the Ledger map.
Where this location comes fromCampus location from IPEDS 2024-25This campus location comes from the federal IPEDS 2024-25 record, used as published, so the pin on the map is the campus.IPEDS Institutional Characteristics, Directory information (HD2024), 2024-25 collection, file dated 2025-09-21, retrieved 2026-09-14: coordinate 35.785468, -78.621301 as published. The Census Bureau geocoder also matched this address exactly on 2026-09-14.

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Sources

  1. U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. IPEDS Institutional Characteristics, Directory information (HD2024), 2024-25 provisional data collection. Unit id 199582. https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/data/HD2024.zip. File dated 2025-09-21.
  2. U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education. Higher Education Programs Eligibility Matrix, sheet 'HBCU', dated 2026-06-08. https://www.ed.gov/media/document/fy-2026-higher-education-programs-eligibility-matrix-june-8-2026-114185.xlsx.
  3. History, Saint Augustine's University. https://www.st-aug.edu/history/. Read 2026-09-14.
  4. Students: 943 total, Fall 2023 (930 undergraduate, 13 graduate). IPEDS Fall Enrollment 2023, derived variables (DRVEF2023). https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/data/DRVEF2023.zip. File dated 2024-09-30, read 2026-09-17.
  5. Notable Alumni, Saint Augustine's University. https://www.st-aug.edu/notable-alumni/. Read 2026-09-17.
  6. SACSCOC Updates, Saint Augustine's University. https://www.st-aug.edu/sacscoc-updates/. Read 2026-09-14.
  7. School colors: Blue and White. Values as stated. Saint Augustine's University (North Carolina), Wikipedia (revision 1374557926). Read 2026-09-16.
  8. Photograph: Mx. Granger, 2014-12-23, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Augustine%27s_University_Historic_Chapel.jpg. Retrieved 2026-09-16.
  9. U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, batch address service, benchmark Public_AR_Current. https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/.

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